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Tag: Matt Costello

  • The LAMP Years – People

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    Gary

    As we ended the last decade we were collating/archiving assets from the LAMP site and think it important to recognise the people that made LAMP the Australian icon in effective emerging media development. Many of the mentors and participants were beginning their own journey on these workshops and residentials and are now leading the industry…

  • Surviving the Forest of Kellor

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    Gary Hayes

    Huge poisonous spiders lie ready to pounce as you carefully traverse a forest lit only by moonlight. This is one of the initiation rights you will face in One Night, a new game that has been prototyped by AFTRS lecturer Ian Brown using Unity3D software. He recently gave a presentation of the project at Gamejam09, the…

  • LAMP Insight Seminars – Creating Online Buzz, Growing Communities

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    Gary

    ‘Inviting Participants to Your Party and Keeping Them There’ will demystify Web 2.0 and help you harness its power to promote your creative project online. This LAMP Insight Seminar series in Hobart, Sydney and Melbourne examines techniques to attract online audiences and keep them coming back for more. It also explores how to effectively promote…

  • GROWING WORLDS: Turning Your Stories in to Games – Melbourne Seminar

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    Gary Hayes

    ‘ GROWING WORLDS: TURNING YOUR STORIES IN TO GAMES Presented by AFTRS LAMP, Australia Council’s Story of the Future and Film Victoria So what makes a great game and what skills do creators of these experiences need in order to develop compelling commercially viable content for the future? A seminar, interview and workshop for story-tellers…

  • Project – Machine

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    Gary Hayes

    , Title: Machine – Tasmania Tagline: Building a better world, one person at a time. Project Description: MACHINE is a competitive social networking game. Two companies, G.I.C. & pSol, vie for world dominance. Players work their way up the ranks of their chosen company by performing a variety of tasks. Each tasks’ solution has a…

  • Mentors Finalised for LAMP VII: Story of the Future

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    Gary Hayes

    A stellar line-up of mentors from all over Australia and a few internationals have been confirmed for the 7th Live-in-lab (LAMP: Story of the Future) on South Stradbrooke Island, Queensland Nov 07. They can be seen on the mentors page or copied below. GUARDIAN MENTORS MATT COSTELLO – Writer and Games Designer, Polar Productions Matt…

  • Teams selected for the seventh LAMP residential in Queensland Nov 7-13

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    Gary Hayes

    Australian Writers and Producers light-up at the next ‘LAMP: Story of the Future’ Here are the details of the ‘LAMP: Story of the Future Residential’, sponsored by the Australia Council’s Story of the Future Initiative. The next ‘LAMP: Residential Lab’ will be taking place on November 7-13 on Queensland’s South Stradbroke Island and is the…